Barrel truck and hoist



No. 750,671. PATENTED JAN. 26, 1904. B. B. LITTLE.

BARREL TRUCK AND HOIST.

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E. B. LITTLE. BARREL TRUCK AND HOIST.

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Patented January 26, 1904.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDMUND B. LITTLE, OF UNION CITY, TENNESSEE.

BARREL TRUCK AND HOlST.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 750,671, dated January26, 1904.

Application filed December 1'7, 1902. Serial No. 135,622. (No model.)

To all whom, it 772/01] concern:

Be it known that I, EDMUND B. LITTLE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Union City, in the county of Obion and State of Tennessee,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Barrel Trucks andHoists; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to certain improvements in barrel or cask trucks.It is particularly adapted for use by those engaged in the manufactureand sale of such receptacles, barrels, or casks, especially those of theheavy or cumbrous kind as for molasses, liquors, &c.to provide for theready raising and lowering of said receptacles, barrels, or casks fromthe floor or surface to and upon the truck by mechanical means; also,for similarly handling or lifting the same in placing them in anelevated position and for the removal thereof from such elevation to thefloor or surface or other point, it being readily operated with theminimum effortas, for instance, by a boy or man.

Said invention consists of the combination and arrangement of parts,substantially as hereinafter more fully disclosed, and specificallypointed out by the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating the preferred embodiment ofmy invention, Figure l is a side elevation thereof. Fig. 2 isa plan viewwith the barrel or cask removed. Fig. 3 is a vertical section takenthrough one of the standards. Fig. 4 is an enlarged detached view of thepawl or dog retaining device. Fig. 5 is a reverse view of theratchet-and-dog actuating-lever. Fig. 6 is a broken sectional view takenthrough the platform or the Windlass and ratchet carrying shaft. Fig. 7is a modification showing more particularly one of the barrel or caskgrappling devices. Fig. 8 is a broken detail view showing a modificationmore particularly of one of the grappling devices.

Itwill be understood that I do not limit myself to details as hereindisclosed, as the same may be changed, according as circumstancessuggest, without departing from the spirit of my invention and the sameremain intact and be protected.

In carrying out my invention I employ a platform or truck proper, 1, thesame being suitably mounted upon wheels or casters 2, swiveled inposition therein. Said platform or truck is preferably recessed to beadapted to readily receive a cask or barrel as it is moved up to thesame for removal, said truck also being provided with standards 3,movably inserted in mortises or sockets .4. Said standards are pivotedin position within said mortises or sockets at their lower ends and heldin a rigid or fixed position, preferably by means of keys or wedges 5inserted in said mortises or sockets against said standards. Saidstandards are provided with longitudinal or vertical ways or slots 6,extending almost the entire length of said standards and adapted toprovide for the application thereto of grappling devices 7 forengagement with the barrel or cask to be raised and transported. Saidgrappling devices preferably comprise a plate having notches or.serrated arms 7 and additional arms 7", arranged at right angles withthe aforesaid arms and adapted to have connected therewith a chain orgirdle 8, adapted to engage the receptacle or cask. Said girdle or'chainmay have applied thereto any suitable means for readily elasping thesame upon the cask or barrel, asshown, or otherwise. Said grapplingdevices are also provided with trunnion-like screw-threaded projectionspassing through and sliding in the slots of said standards and havingapplied to their free ends nuts, or they may be screws, working in saidgrappling devices and passing through said slots, with washers or plates9 arranged thereon upon the outer surfaces of said standards and havingattached thereto lines or cables 10. Said lines or cablesare adapted topass over pulleys 11, hung in position in arms 10, applied to the upperends of said standards, said lines or cables also passing down,preferably, through openings in the platform 1 and coiled uponwindlasses or drums 12, fixed upon a common shaft 13, journaled in saidplatform, said lines or cables being suitably secured to said drums.

The shaft-of said drum is preferably support ed in metallic hearings orplates secured to said side bars of said platform, said shaft havingfixed thereto at one end laterally of said platform a ratchet 13, andupon said shaft, alongside of said ratchet, is arranged a lever 14. Saidlever has its inner end preferably provided with a flat plate-likeextension 14, having an elongated slot 14 through which thedrum-and-ratchet shaft 13 passes, said shaft having a washer M and nut14L thereon loosely confining said lever in position upon said shaft.Said lever is provided with two lateral pins or studs 15 15, arrangedslightly out of the same longitudinal plane, the purpose of which willbe presently explained. A dog or detent 16, having one arm aboutcentrally pivoted laterally to one of the side bars of the platform 1,is adapted to engage the ratchet 13. Said dog or detent is provided atone end of said arm with a lateral stop or projection 16 and has apreferably conical rearwardlyextending cam projection or lug 16, whosefaces are preferably engaged by a preferably flat plate-spring 17,preferably riveted to a right-angled portion of a disk or plate 17,suitably held laterally tosaid platform, or, rather, to one of its lateral bars.

In using my device the platform 1 is moved up close to the barrel orcask it may be desired to transport, the grappling devices suitablyadjusted in their standards by properly manipulating theratchet-and-drum shaft by means of the lever 14, the girdle or chain 8being then applied to the barrel, and the grappling devices next broughtinto engagement with said barrel or cask for effective connectiontherewith. Said lever is now brought into engagement with the ratchet 13by mov ing it upon the shaft of said ratchet so as to effect connectionbetween said ratchet and the lateral stud or pin 15" and moving thelever in the required direction for the actuation of said ratchet, so asto wind the lines or cables upon their drums, which will effect theelevation of said cask orbarrel out of contact with and above thesurface or floor, the dog or detent 16 effecting the retention'of theratchet at each interval of its movement, and accordingly the retentionof said cask or barrel in its elevated position. The truck is now movedto the point it is desired to store the barrel. The lever 14 is graspedand moved so as to permit its pin or stud 15 to be disposed opposite butnot in contact with the upper end of the dog or pawl 16. Said-lever isnow thrust downwardly, effecting the reengagement of the stud 15 withsaid ratchet, it being thus moved rearwardly to efiect theengagement ofthe stud or pin 15 with the dog or pawl 16 and disengage said pawl fromsaid ratchet, said pawl being held in its disengaged position by meansof. the spring 17 then engaging the upper face of the lug 16 Saidratchet, together with a ropewinding drum and shaft, is then free torevolve for the unwinding of said cable,with the stud 15 of said leverstill in engagement with said ratchet. Said unwinding action is thuscontrolled by the operator still having hold of said. lever when saidshaft is revolved in the unwinding of the rope or cable, permitting thepartial descent or lowering the barrel or cask, the lower end of saidlever engaging the lateral stud 16 of said dog or pawl when said leverhas described a certain arc in its movement, again moving said dog intoengagement with said ratchet, thus arresting the unwinding action of thebarrel-lowering cable. Said operation of parts is repeated, ifnecessary, to further lower the barrel to the point where it is desiredto place the latter. It will also be observed that by removing thewedges or keys 5 the standardsB may be inclined upon their pivotsorfulcrums as the cask-retaining lines or cables are slackened into aforwardlyinclined position, whereby the cask while yet in an elevatedposition is disposed in place at an elevated point, as upon a platformor other elevated support, the lever, which, it will be understood, wasactuated to aid in effecting such disposing of said standards, beingfurther actuated, so as to effect the continuous unwinding of saidcables or lines and lower the barrel or cask into such elevatedposition.

In the modification as disclosed in Fig. 7 I may use in lieu of thescrews or studs carrying the barrel or cask grappling devices, eachcomprising a keeper or slide 18; adapted to embrace a standard andhaving anintegral arm adapted to permit the attachment thereto of thebarrel or cask elevating lines or cables, the grappling devices properbeing axially or pivotally carried by said keepers.

'It will also be noted that my invention may be used for handling abarrel or cask for the purpose of boring it and inserting a faucetthereinto, and to do this the barrel-suspending chain is connectedthereto about at its mid: dle or bulge and the barrel raised orelevated, as above described, until said barrel can be turned ordisposed in a horizontal position to provide for effecting such boringoperation and fitting the faucet in place and without spilling orwasting the contents of the filled barrel. It may then be readily turnedand restored to its upright position and left suspended in the hoist ordevice or lowered to the floor or platform, as desired. Said device mayalso be used to advantage for careening the cask when the contents havebeen removed to that extent; otherwise it would be inconvenient toeffect the drainage thereof, thus providing for such ready drainage.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1'. In a device of the character described, a truck provided withpivoted standards, means for the retention of said standards in a fixedposition, grappling-hooks adapted to slide in said standards, means forengaging said grappling-hooks to a cask or barrel, means for raising andlowering said grappling-hooks, comprising a shaft carrying a drum andratchet, a dog adapted to engage said ratchet, a lever slidingly mountedupon said shaft and having means for engagement with said ratchet anddog respectively.-

2. In a device of the character described, a truck provided withstandards, grapplinghooks adapted to slide in said standards, meansconnecting together said grappling-hooks and adapted to engage thebarrel or cask, and means for raising and lowering said grapplinghooks,comprising a shaft carrying a ratchet, a spring-pressed dog engagingsaid ratchet, a lever having a sliding connection with said shaft andprovided with lateral studs or pins, one adapted to engage said ratchetand the other adapted to engage said dog.

3. In a device of the character described, a truck equipped withstandards, sliding grappling devices arranged in said standards, meansconnecting said grappling devices together when applied to a barrel orcask, and means for raising and lowering said grappling devices,comprising a winding-shaft carrying a fixed ratchet, said shaft beingconnected up with said grappling devices, an endwise-movable leverarranged upon said winding-shaft, a spring-actuated dog adapted toengage said ratchet and having a lateral stud, said lever having itslower end adapted to engage said lateral stud a. In a device of thecharacter described, a truck provided with standards, slidinggrappling-hooks arranged in said standards and adapted to be connectedtogether for raising a cask or barrel, and means for raising andlowering said grappling-hooks, comprising a shaft carrying afixedratchet, aspring-pressed dog engaging said ratchet, a sliding leverprovided with lateral studs or pins, one of said studs engaging saidratchet and the other pin or stud adapted to engage said dog.

5. In a device of the character described, a truck provided withstandards, sliding grappling devices arranged upon said standards, andadapted to be applied to a cask for raising and lowering the same, andmeans for raising and lowering said grappling-hooks, comprising a shafthaving a fixed ratchet thereon, a spring-actuated dog provided with alateral stud or projection, a sliding lever arranged upon said shaft andprovided with lateral lugs or pins, one adapted to engage said ratchetand the other adapted to engage said dog.

6. In a device of the character described, a truck provided withstandards, sliding grappling-hooks adapted to be connected together whenapplied to a cask, means for raising and lowering said grappling-hooks,comprising a shaft carrying a fixed ratchet, a spring-actuated dogadapted to engage said ratchet having a lateral stud or projection, anda sliding lever arranged upon said ratchet-shaft and having lateralstuds or pins, one adapted to engage said ratchet and the other adaptedto engage said dog, said lever having its lower end adapted to engagethe lateral stud or projection of said dog.

7. In a device of the character described, a truck equipped withstandards, sliding grappling devices arranged upon said standards andhaving means for their applicationto a barrel or cask, means for raisingand lowering said grappling devices, comprisinga shaft carrying a fixedratchet, a dog engaging said ratchet and having a conical-endedextension or cam, a spring adapted to engage said conical extension orcam, and a sliding lever arranged upon said ratchet-shaft and providedwith lateral studs or pins, one engaging said ratchet and the otherengaging said dog, said lever or pawl adapted to engage at its lower enda lateral stud of said dog.

8. In a device of the character described, a truck equipped withstandards, sliding grappling devices arranged upon said standardsadapted for application to a barrel or cask, and means for raising andlowering said grappling devices, comprising a shaft carrying a fixedratchet, a dog engaging said ratchet and having a lateral stud and arearward conical extension or cam, a spring adapted to engage saidconical extensionor cam, and a sliding lever arranged upon saidratchet-shaft and having lateral studs or pins, one adapted to engagesaid ratchet and the other adapted to engage said dog.

9. In a device of the character described, a truck equipped withstandards, sliding grappling devices arranged upon said standards, eachgrappling device having teeth adapted to engage a cask or barrel and tobe connected with means for application to a barrel or cask, and meansfor effecting the raising and lowering of said grappling-hooks.

10. In a device of.the character described, a truck provided withstandards having longitudinal slots therein, grappling devices havingscrew-threaded trunnion-like projections arranged to slide in said slotsand provided with plates having teeth adapted to be applied to a barrel,&c., arranged laterally of said standards, means adapted to connect upsaid grappling devices after application to a barrel or cask, lines orcables connected to said plates or disks of said grappling devices, andmeans for actuating said lines or cables.

11. In a device of the character described, a truck equipped withsupports, grappling devices, each having means to engage a cask orbarrel, arranged to slide upon said supports and means for connectingsaid grappling devices after application to a barrel or cask, saidsupports having pulleys arranged at theirup- IIS per ends, cables orlines passed over said pulleys and connected to said grappling devicesand means for actuating said lines or cables.

12. In a device of the character described, a truck equipped withstandards, sliding grappling-hooks arranged upon said standards, meansfor actuating said grappling-hooks, and means comprising keys or Wedgesarranged in slots laterally of said standards, whereby the Withdrawal ofwhich Wedges or keys Will per- I0 mit said standards to be adjusted toan inclined position.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

EDMUND B. LITTLE. Witnesses:

J. W. TEMPLE, A. J. HARPSOLE.

